Practical MATLAB Deep Learning: A Projects-Based Approach

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M. Paluszek et al.Practical MATLAB Deep Learninghttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7912-0_12

12. Orbit Determination

Michael Paluszek¹  , Stephanie Thomas²   and Eric Ham²  

(1)

Plainsboro, NJ, USA

(2)

Princeton, NJ, USA

 

12.1 Introduction

Determining orbits from measurements has been done for hundreds of years. The general approach is to take a series of measurements of the object from the ground at different times. Possible measurements are range and range rate from the observation point or angles of the object from the measurement point. Given the location from where the measurements are taken on the Earth and this set of data, one can reconstruct the orbit. ...